PublicationsResearchChildren and Youth, Ex-combatant Reintegration and DemilitarisationOnward Marching Comrades: The Career of the Charterist Movement in Diepkloof, SowetoThis paper explores the decline of the Charterist youth movement in Diepkloof in the early 1990s. It argues that while this movement developed very slowly in the 1980s, it soon became a strong, well organised force in the township, that later faced a crisis. Read More Monique MarksJune 1, 1995
PublicationsResearchEx-combatant Reintegration and Demilitarisation, Transitional Justice, Truth Commissions, Violence in TransitionTruth Recovery or McCarthyism Revisited: An Evaluation of the Stasi Records Act of 1991 with Reference to the South African ExperienceThis paper examines the fraught issue of access to the records of intelligence, security and law enforcement agencies. The dilemmas which this topic poses are at the cutting edge of the tensions between the rights of access to information and those of privacy. Read More Graeme SimpsonFebruary 4, 1994
PublicationsResearchAnti-Apartheid, Ex-combatant Reintegration and DemilitarisationWar and ResistanceThis paper reflects on how the Committee on South African War Resistance (COSAWR) and its 'resister' thinking impacted on the African National Congress. It opened up the terrain of the military to contest and helped the movement understand militarisation. Before COSAWR and 'resister,' the issue had been discussed in anti-apartheid circles, but no strategy had emerged, possibly because no-one could gauge whether the white community would be receptive. Read More Janine RauchFebruary 1, 1994
PublicationsResearchEx-combatant Reintegration and Demilitarisation, GenderWomen, the Military and Militarisation: Some Questions Raised by the South African CaseThis paper illustrates how women, far from being marginalised from the process of militarisation, can actively contribute towards it. It also illustrates the similarities in the position of women in conventional and guerrilla armies. The South African case shows the durability of patriarchy and the fragility of the gains made for women during periods of war. It sharpens the debate about the relation between equal rights and women's participation in armies. Read More Jacklyn CockApril 24, 1992
